Txmoe said:

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https://www.theeagle.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letters-for-oct/article_f638ffe2-86e3-558e-aafb-2adc46816db0.html

I debated a long time about whether to post this and I'm sincerely NOT trying to rabble-rouse. This is a faculty member who, by all accounts, has had a good career and is liked by his students. I just think it's interesting to note that there is always a friction between academics and sports at A&M (and probably everywhere else). Thought others might find it interesting, too. My opinion is that he unfairly created mountains out of molehills just to criticize Fisher, but he's entitled to his opinion.

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Hope A&M administrators have counseled Jimbo Fisher

Recent events involving A&M's head football coach and one of his top players has prompted this letter.
As an Aggie (Class of 1960), collegiate athlete, sports psychologist, and 53-year faculty member, I am appalled at the behaviors displayed by Coach Jimbo Fisher, who has a decade-long history of coddling an assortment of sex offenders, felons, miscreants and ne'er-do-wells while at Florida State. Twenty-nine of his players were arrested during his 10-year tenure there. Sports analyst Mike Rosenberg has studied university athlete arrests over a recent five-year period and found that Florida State was number 10 on the list (A&M was third). As he further indicated: "Imagine what FSU's arrest rate would be if Tallahassee police actually arrested football players."

We are five games into Fisher's troubled (and troubling) tenure in which he has been captured on television pushing and shoving assistant coaches and/or other team personnel and inexcusably grabbing a player by the facemask. These missteps have gone viral to tens of thousands of television viewers. It is my fondest hope that these outbursts have not gone unnoticed by the athletic director and the university administration. I am going to assume, perhaps naively, that the powers that be already have acted so that we might not have to endure 10 more years of this boorish, mind-boggling misbehavior.

Perhaps even more ominous in some ways is the prospect of A&M turning once again into a powerhouse reminiscent of the days of Paul "Bear" Bryant, Emory Bellard, Jackie Sherrill and R.C. Slocum. Winning coaches often are given a behavioral and ethical blank check by university administrators, alumni and the adoring public if they pile up the wins.

In our case, let's pile up the wins but let's do it with class. Shoving or pummeling assistants and assaulting players is not class!

ARNOLD LEUNES
College Station

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Sounds like prof leunes should move to sipville.

Dr.HeadCase said:

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Does he not realize that during Sumlin's tenure we were one of the leaders in the number of player arrests? Criticizes Jimbo for letting players run wild but then is mad at Jimbo for disciplining a player on the field.

Not particularly relevant, but I took a class with that professor, and it was one of the worst classes I had. Spent the entire lecture telling irrelevant personal stories of his accomplishments. Always struck me as a bit of a narcissist.

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http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=728723

Apparently he has well known for "caring" but he's a ****ty teacher who likes to tell stories in class and let you learn on your own time from his book.

This letter reads like Arnuld missed his calling, surprised he made it so long at TAMU when he should be a "public servant" from the state of california

I see players actually having fun, playing a full game, stepping up in major moments and a prof has a problem with this? Get outta here with that BS Professor.

Federale01 said:

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And how many of his students were arrested over his long tenure at A&M?

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Bayside Tiger Ag said:

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Nvm. Since when did Austin start moving to College Station?

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Vision 2020 is almost complete.

Just another case showing why A&M should have stayed closer to agricultural and mechanical. Stay with life and science not emotional and outraged. As we shift farther to the center and eventual left, TDS will be come more of our norm. This is our potential future ags. Please no!!

probably pissed that Jimbo makes more in a week (and not even a full week) than he does in a year...

Txmoe said:

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https://www.theeagle.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letters-for-oct/article_f638ffe2-86e3-558e-aafb-2adc46816db0.html

I debated a long time about whether to post this and I'm sincerely NOT trying to rabble-rouse. This is a faculty member who, by all accounts, has had a good career and is liked by his students. I just think it's interesting to note that there is always a friction between academics and sports at A&M (and probably everywhere else). Thought others might find it interesting, too. My opinion is that he unfairly created mountains out of molehills just to criticize Fisher, but he's entitled to his opinion.

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Hope A&M administrators have counseled Jimbo Fisher

Recent events involving A&M's head football coach and one of his top players has prompted this letter.
As an Aggie (Class of 1960), collegiate athlete, sports psychologist, and 53-year faculty member, I am appalled at the behaviors displayed by Coach Jimbo Fisher, who has a decade-long history of coddling an assortment of sex offenders, felons, miscreants and ne'er-do-wells while at Florida State. Twenty-nine of his players were arrested during his 10-year tenure there. Sports analyst Mike Rosenberg has studied university athlete arrests over a recent five-year period and found that Florida State was number 10 on the list (A&M was third). As he further indicated: "Imagine what FSU's arrest rate would be if Tallahassee police actually arrested football players."

We are five games into Fisher's troubled (and troubling) tenure in which he has been captured on television pushing and shoving assistant coaches and/or other team personnel and inexcusably grabbing a player by the facemask. These missteps have gone viral to tens of thousands of television viewers. It is my fondest hope that these outbursts have not gone unnoticed by the athletic director and the university administration. I am going to assume, perhaps naively, that the powers that be already have acted so that we might not have to endure 10 more years of this boorish, mind-boggling misbehavior.

Perhaps even more ominous in some ways is the prospect of A&M turning once again into a powerhouse reminiscent of the days of Paul "Bear" Bryant, Emory Bellard, Jackie Sherrill and R.C. Slocum. Winning coaches often are given a behavioral and ethical blank check by university administrators, alumni and the adoring public if they pile up the wins.

In our case, let's pile up the wins but let's do it with class. Shoving or pummeling assistants and assaulting players is not class!

ARNOLD LEUNES
College Station

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Fantastic Troll Arnold...

The tenure system has destroyed higher education and these academics are making their money on the backs of students taking on impossible burdens of debt. How does he sleep at night?

Arnold,

The game has passed you by. You are a dinosaur. Go find your tar pit. You'll be relevant again in a few million years.

I remember in 8th grade (early '80s) my mom asked me after a football game if the coach often grabs players by the face mask. She said parents were appalled that the coach had grabbed their son's face mask during the game.

I told her he had never grabbed my face mask, and if he did, she needed to stay out of it. I also told her that if that bothered parents, they probably shouldn't come to practice.

In 7th grade, we got 2 licks for being late to practice. I'm talking lift-you-off-the-ground licks.

In 10th grade, we were the tackling dummies for the Varsity. Our star Sr LB was lined up to tackle me. It was right before water break and he went half speed and the coach was all up in his business. Coach told us to line it up again and that if he didn't go full speed, he was going to bench him. Needless to say, I laid on the ground gasping for air instead of getting a water break.

Everyone here probably has their stories... If you've played football, in Texas... grabbing your face mask is likely a welcomed response compared to some of the things you've experienced.

If grabbing my face, in lieu of an "F" I'd let you grab my face during the entire exam.

Have any of ARNOLD LEUNES' students been arrested?

What assistant coaches / staff did Fisher push and shove?

hillcountryag86 said:

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What assistant coaches / staff did Fisher push and shove?

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None. Arnold is fake news.

Bryant ran Junction Boys which surely would have gotten the entire staff fired in today's world.
Bellard resigned midseason, I'm too young to know why.
Sherrill was busted for cheating.
Slocum was a good guy, but still had a few bad apples in his locker room.

Point is don't paint the past as perfect .Statistics will tell you with 100+ young men in the locker room, there will be some bad apples.

Some individuals need to learn not speak when they have no idea what they are talking about.

Jimbo is making Aggie football great again.

Fisher has been pushing and shoving assistants all season?? I tend to think I follow Aggie football closer than ole Arnold and I haven't noticed that at all. Dodson is his by 320 lb offensive lineman every game but shaking his facemask a little is assaulting him....jesus christ people have become soft. This guy sounds like he has some unrelated bone to pick with the University.

If Jimbo weren't a public figure, I'd advise him to bring up ol' Luenes on defamation.

Does this guy have kids I wonder? Has he ever ripped a kid away forcefully at the last moment to keep them from doing something regretful? Has he ever had a kid get arrested for doing something stupid?

Because if he has, then he should know better than to fault Fisher for what he did FOR Dotson and he should understand that the actions of kids (and in particular, kids you had no responsibility for raising for the 18 years before they arrived in your care) are not always reflective of the mentality/character of the parent.

This guy just doesn't like Fisher, did a poor job marshaling his evidence in support of that position, and than publicized his dislike in a manner that unfairly and unjustifiably creates discord in the Aggie community. And this guy calls himself an Aggie and an academic?

Txmoe said:

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https://www.theeagle.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letters-for-oct/article_f638ffe2-86e3-558e-aafb-2adc46816db0.html

I debated a long time about whether to post this and I'm sincerely NOT trying to rabble-rouse. This is a faculty member who, by all accounts, has had a good career and is liked by his students. I just think it's interesting to note that there is always a friction between academics and sports at A&M (and probably everywhere else). Thought others might find it interesting, too. My opinion is that he unfairly created mountains out of molehills just to criticize Fisher, but he's entitled to his opinion.

Quote:

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Hope A&M administrators have counseled Jimbo Fisher

Recent events involving A&M's head football coach and one of his top players has prompted this letter.
As an Aggie (Class of 1960), collegiate athlete, sports psychologist, and 53-year faculty member, I am appalled at the behaviors displayed by Coach Jimbo Fisher, who has a decade-long history of coddling an assortment of sex offenders, felons, miscreants and ne'er-do-wells while at Florida State. Twenty-nine of his players were arrested during his 10-year tenure there. Sports analyst Mike Rosenberg has studied university athlete arrests over a recent five-year period and found that Florida State was number 10 on the list (A&M was third). As he further indicated: "Imagine what FSU's arrest rate would be if Tallahassee police actually arrested football players."

We are five games into Fisher's troubled (and troubling) tenure in which he has been captured on television pushing and shoving assistant coaches and/or other team personnel and inexcusably grabbing a player by the facemask. These missteps have gone viral to tens of thousands of television viewers. It is my fondest hope that these outbursts have not gone unnoticed by the athletic director and the university administration. I am going to assume, perhaps naively, that the powers that be already have acted so that we might not have to endure 10 more years of this boorish, mind-boggling misbehavior.

Perhaps even more ominous in some ways is the prospect of A&M turning once again into a powerhouse reminiscent of the days of Paul "Bear" Bryant, Emory Bellard, Jackie Sherrill and R.C. Slocum. Winning coaches often are given a behavioral and ethical blank check by university administrators, alumni and the adoring public if they pile up the wins.

In our case, let's pile up the wins but let's do it with class. Shoving or pummeling assistants and assaulting players is not class!

ARNOLD LEUNES
College Station

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Exaggerate much, Mr. Leunes?

Dear Arnold Leunes,